New Agreement Mandates Sweeping Changes in D.C. Special Education
December 13, 2007—District of Columbia officials announced that the city will make sweeping changes in its special education program to comply with a new consent decree in a 10-year-old class action, Blackman & Jones v. District of Columbia. When approved by the court, the decree will require the school system to address the needs of hundreds of students with mental or physical disabilities who await services. Read more...

Lawsuit Ends with Agreement to Create New Housing and Community Services for Seniors and People with Disabilities
Mark Chambers’ dream “to be part of the world outside” the nursing home he’s lived in for eight years will soon come true. Over the next five years, Chambers and several hundred other residents of the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco will move to independent apartments linked to the supportive services they need, according to a settlement announced on November 27, 2007. Read more...

Court Approves Agreement in DC Special Education Case
August 29, 2006―A long-awaited agreement spelling out steps to end delays in District of Columbia students’ access to needed special education has received court approval. Read more.. .

Hunter College Settles Lawsuit by Student Barred from Dorm after Treatment for Depression
August 23, 2006—The City University of New York (CUNY) has agreed to pay $65,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a student who had been barred from her dormitory room at Hunter College because she was hospitalized after a suicide attempt. The college is also reviewing and planning to change its "suicide policy." Read more...

Student Punished for Getting Help
Jordan Nott was a straight-A sophomore at George Washington University (GWU) in the fall of 2004 when he sought emergency psychiatric care for depression.  When they learned of Nott’s hospitalization, university officials charged him with violating the school code of conduct, suspended him, evicted him from his dorm and threatened him with arrest for trespassing if he set foot on university property.  The Bazelon Center considers the university’s actions to be discrimination based on the perception that Nott had a disability, and is representing him in a lawsuit. Read more.

• Read older news items about our work in the courts in the news section.
• Review descriptions of Bazelon's current legal cases in the docket section.

Digest of Cases and Other Resources on Fair Housing for People with Disabilities

The updates below supplement the August 2003 edition of the book, Digest of Cases and Other Resources on Fair Housing for People with Disabilities, published by the Bazelon Center and available for purchase. Updates of the Digest will include cases as they come to our attention.

• U.S. Supreme Court
• First Judicial Circuit
• Second Judicial Circuit
• Third Judicial Circuit
• Fourth Judicial Circuit
• Fifth Judicial Circuit
• Sixth Judicial Circuit
• Seventh Judicial Circuit
• Eighth Judicial Circuit
• Ninth Judicial Circuit
• Tenth Judicial Circuit
• Eleventh Judicial Circuit
• HUD Administrative Law Cases